The Dominion

- TAX AVOIDANCE: Inland
Revenue investigators expect to dig up several hundred
million dollars on unpaid tax hidden by companies through
complex evasion schemes and other “aggressive” tax
arrangements.

- FROST: Frost hit most places in the
central and lower North Island during Queen’s Birthday
weekend.

- COPTER CRASH: Three men died in a helicopter
crash near Taumaranui in the King Country yesterday.

-
CORNELL POPULAR: The organiser of an adult lifestyle
exhibition said hits on its website went “ballistic” after
news that NZ beauty queen Karlena Cornell took part in a
striptease contest.

- TOURIST PRICES: New Zealanders face
being priced out of taking domestic holidays and having to
pay higher prices in bars and restaurants between January
and March, as the Hospitality Association pushes for higher
prices.

- PHONE TAPPING: The Corrections Department
expects to introduce a new technology to tap inmates’ phones
calls by August, a year later than initially
planned.

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